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Coaches like to say their team should show the most improvement between the first and second game of the season.

The Austin Peay run defense lived up to that axiom Saturday at Vanderbilt, just one week after giving up more than 200 yards and nearly eight yards per carry in the first half at Tennessee. Vandy's first seven rushes yielded just seven yards, including two tackles for loss by Govs defensive ends and no carries for more than four yards.

"They were having trouble kind of getting to the outside (at UT)," Cannon said. "That was the most important thing is that our initial reaction to things ...